Nathaniel Lyon Johnston

1861 - 1940  (79 years)

• Name	Nathaniel Lyon Johnston  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	7 Sep 1861	American, Sacramento, California, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1870	American, Sacramento, California, USA   [1]
  Residence	1880	American, Sacramento, California, USA   [2]
  Residence	1910	Chico, Butte, California   [3]
  Residence	1920	Chico, Butte, California   [4]
  Residence	1920	Chico, Butte, California   [4]
  Death	7 Jun 1926	San Francisco, California
  Death	25 Nov 1940	Shasta, Shasta, California, USA
  Person ID	I24397	Bob Juch's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	William Ekenhead Johnston,   b. 15 Apr 1816, Dungannon, Tyrone, Ireland d. 5 Sep 1898, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, USA (Age 82 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Margaret Hargrave,   b. 15 Sep 1831, Ardee, Louth, Ireland d. 8 Apr 1913, Sacramento, Sacramento, California, USA (Age 81 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F23489	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Miriam C. Evans,   b. 14 Oct 1876, Frenchtown, Yuba County, California, USA d. 2 Aug 1947, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	27 Sep 1899	Brownsville, Yuba, California, USA
  Children	1. Aleta Mildred Johnston   2. Vada Alfreda Johnston   3. Ethel Minerva Johnston   4. Arthur Nathaniel Johnston,   b. 8 Aug 1906, California, USA d. 11 Mar 1965, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 58 years)  [natural]   5. Helen R Johnston,   b. 17 Sep 1909, Butte, California, USA  [natural]   6. Claudia Theodora Johnston
  Family ID	F9214	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 27 Sep 1899 - Brownsville, Yuba, California, USA Death - 25 Nov 1940 - Shasta, Shasta, California, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  From History of Butte County, pp. 1241-1242: Among the energetic and successful ranchers of Butte County, Nathaniel Lyon JOHNSTON deserves recognition. He is a native son, born ten miles north of Sacramento, September 7, 1861. His father, William E., was of Scotch descent, but was born in the north of Ireland. After coming to the United States, he spent some years in the East as a flour miller. In 1849 he crossed the plains to Salt Lake, and thence in 1850 to California, where he mined for a while, and then engaged in the dairy business at Sacramento. Later he purchased railroad land north of that city, and added to his acreage until he had three hundred twenty acres devoted to dairying and stock raising. After a time he leased the place to his sons and returned to Sacramento, where he died at the age of eighty-three. N.L. JOHNSTON's mother, Margaret (HARGRAVE) JOHNSTON was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and came to the United States at the age of fourteen. She died in 1913, over eighty years of age. Of her twelve children, eight grew to maturity and six are living. Nathaniel L. JOHNSTON was the fifth child in his parents' family. He received a public school education, and early in life was set to work learning ranching. He remained at home until twenty years of age, and then, in 1881, came to Butte County and worked during the harvest on the Rives, now the Phelan, ranch. Returning to his home, he and his brother, Robert E., rented their father's place and also land on Haggin Grant. They ranched for over fifteen years, and during this time, in addition to the twelve hundred acres, they bought the Steve Barwell ranch of eighteen hundred acres on Pleasant Grove Creek, Placer County, which they farm, also renting one thousand acres from James Keysburg, four thousand acres altogether, twenty-two hundred acres of which was in wheat. In putting in and harvesting their crops, they ran five-, eight-, and ten-horse teams; and in addition to their operations in grain they also raised cattle and mules. The purchased eighteen hundred acres of land from the Everts Brothers, near Wheatland. Later Nathaniel L. sold his interest to his brother, and came to Butte County in the spring of 1906, where he purchased the Robert Houseman place of two hundred acres, and later bought the Mrs. Korn place of one hundred sixty acres, on which he settled and engaged in the raising of grain, stock and sheep. The ranch lies eight miles north of Chico. In Brownsville, Cal., on September 27, 1899, Nathaniel L. JOHNSTON was married to Miriam EVANS, a native of that place, and a daughter of James EVANS, an Eastern man of Welsh descent, who crossed the plains three times with ox teams.

  
  

• Sources

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